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In September 1998, I was living in the Italian town of Spello and walking around central Umbria with occasional small train trips outside Umbria, to Rome and elsewhere.
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Flu, domesticity.
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Urvinum Hortense and Collemancio; a folk etymology.
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Rome:
I start to do my tour of the Aurelian Walls; a visit to the Colosseum.
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September 4
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— Diary not kept —
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A Roman parade in
Spello,
with yours truly as Julius Caesar. . . .
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September 6
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Tuoro sul Trasimeno; the vandalized Chiesa Tonda near Spello; more Julius Caesar.
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Spoleto:
S. Pietro; the Roman theatre.
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September 9
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Rome: the Palazzo Barberini, the Pantheon, ice skating on a crowded rink; I try a McDonald's.
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A 9 km walk in the comuni of Trevi and Campello sul Clitunno.
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The sources of the Clitumnus. I walk in the Marche region from S. Vittorio delle Chiuse (a beautiful Byzantine Romanesque church in the comune of Genga) to Sassoferrato. Rome: the Capitoline Museums.
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September 13‑15
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Musei Capitolini, continued; skating in Marino. A day of rural Roman investigations: including the aqueduct of Spello, where three of us get thoroughly drenched.
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More rural Roman investigations: Fiamenga and Budino. Conversation with a mynah bird.
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At Amelia, I discover some archaeology buffs who show me around the Roman river port of Seripola.
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Amelia, continued: my new friends take me to fields full of ancient pottery. The polygonal walls of Amelia, and I meet lots of people. Back in Spello, I briefly attend a conference on Roman law. Rome:
Trajan's Column
and a very disappointing visit of the Forum. Skating in Marino.
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Nothing much.
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September 21
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Todi and my film developers. The end of an era: a good restaurant bites the dust.
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A walk in the country: Fossato di Vico, Sigillo, Scirca, Costacciaro, three Roman bridges. So much to see that I only do half my expected mileage, and stay at a just opened agriturismo near Costacciaro.
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A lesson in how not to make money. The other half of my walk: to Scheggia and
Gubbio.
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I visit Nocera Umbra, now reduced to a ghost town after the 1997 earthquake.
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September 26
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Etruscan stuff in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Perugia. Back to Nocera Umbra for a concert with Katia Ricciarelli to mark the 1st anniversary of the earthquake.
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September 28‑29
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A 47 km walk from Spello to Todi: Gaglioli, Gualdo Cattaneo, and some spectacular landscape under equally spectacular weather.
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